Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians, for instance, feels like the angel looking for Jacob in a desert encampment of unbelieving women. And several times, Wilson mentions visual images that have stirred his own imagination--a curled brown photograph of Juan Tushim's grandfather, a scene in Bunuel's Las Hurdes in which a plain child's coffin is carried down through Spanish passes on the shoulders of grieving relatives. "The rendition of death is liquid," he remembers, "the camera turns and dances, the river ruffles at the men's legs." If this description--with its stark imagery and fluid camera work--is reminiscent...
...Pretzel, is a quick estimate of how strong the caller's death wish is. A rough measure is how specific a means he has chosen, how deadly it is, and how easy to get hold of. Out of squeamishness, out of refusal to believe the threat, out of plain fear that it might touch things off, few people will ask a threatened suicide one key question that must be self?" asked: If he "How has do not you yet plan to made kill up your his mind exactly how, says Pretzel, the immediate risk is small...
Sergeant Bill Tillman fired a brand-new wire-guided missile which corrected its direction in mid-air and blew the turret off an oncoming tank. As the sun rose, 22 North Vietnamese tanks were left burning on the plain. Although the marines had some bad moments and had to give a little ground, they did so in good order and finally held firm; the North Vietnamese tanks had not proved to be all that formidable...
...Wednesday again and I went to twentieth and Greenfield. George wanted to talk with my parents about getting rid of the plain guitar I rented from the music school. He wanted Dad to buy a $215 electric guitar and amplifier. There were always a lot of expensive guitars on display at the music school...
Then, last October, Garner Ted was suddenly relieved of duties as executive vice president of the church and vice chancellor of Ambassador College. Later his name was expunged from the masthead of The Plain Truth. His radio programs were replaced by ten-year-old tapes made by his father...